“By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.” MaySelfAmericaValuesBlackInterestWhiteVisionIdentityInstitutionsTraditionalOppressionCategoriesBlack And WhiteConstructsSelf InterestSelectiveNew VisionRacial Identity Book:Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American Politics Source: Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American Politics
“The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?” IdeasValuesBlackBornTaughtExcellenceSegregation Author:Walter Dean Myers
“To those who feel that their values are THE values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," simply because such systems respond to a diversity of values. The more successfully such systems respond to diversity, the more "chaos" there will be, by definition, according to the standards of ANY specific set of values- other than diversity or freedom as values. Looked at another way, the more self-righteous observers there are, the more chaos (and "waste") will be seen.” WayFeelsSelfValuesBlackWasteDiversityStandardsChaosDefinitionsControlledRighteousObserversAnother WaySelf Righteous Author:Thomas Sowell
“Civil rights for all Americans, black, white, red, yellow, the rich, poor, young, old, gay, straight, et cetera, is not a liberal or a conservative value. It's an American value that I would think that we pretty much all agree on.” ThinkingYoungValuesBlackWhitePoorRichRightsGayRedAgreeConservativeCivil RightsYellowBlack WhiteAmerican ValuesRich PoorConservative Values Author:Jerry Falwell
“I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.” ThinkingBelieveLife IsValuesBlackWhiteColorPaperPagesThings To DoRemoveGoing AwayBad ThingsBlack And WhiteReproducingActual LifeXerox Author:Ursula Burns
“A silly society is a youth-obsessed society: To the Chinese, who appreciate the value of experience, the greater the ratio in a team of grey 'hairs and no-hairs' to 'black hairs' the faster and better a task will be completed. The opposite assumption obtains in the youth-obsessed U.S.” ValuesBlackGreaterTeamYouthHairAppreciateTasksOppositesSillyChineseFasterObsessedAssumptionGreyRatiosBlack HairGrey Hair Author:Ilana Mercer
“I think that humanity is at an all-time low in how we value life, especially among young Black people. We just don't really value each other's lives .” PeopleThinkingYoungValuesHumanityBlackLowsAll TimeBlack PeopleAll Time Low Author:Michael B. Jordan
“I try to take people at face value and then beyond, taking them out of face value and out of the category of being Black, Latino, Asian, White, Jewish, Muslim or Christian or Atheist, none of that matters to me.” PeopleTryingMatterChristianFacesValuesBlackWhiteAtheistCategoriesAsianLatinoFace Value Author:Immortal Technique
“Brown people and black people and red people swarmed through our great halls, until those who were white looked simply faded-out human beings beside them. Indeed, I came to see that white is not a color in skin any more than in textiles, and if it had not quality, it had no value even for humanity. I saw that color in skin had a certain advantage in strength and warmth as a means of beauty.” PeopleIfsHumansMeanCertainValuesHumanityBlackHuman BeingsWhiteQualitySawsColorRedAdvantageSkinsBrownHallsWarmthBlack PeopleFadedTextiles Book:Yesterdays in a Busy Life Source: Yesterdays in a Busy Life
“Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately in search of distractions and escalating sensations, and a fundamentalist culture wherein the rigors of a private journey are shunned in favor of an ideology that, at the expense of the paradoxes and complexities of truth, favors one-sided resolutions, black-and-white values, and a privileging of one's own complexes as the norm for others.” TodayValuesCultureBlackWhiteFantasyJourneyComplexesDrivenFavorsIdeologyCommunismConsumersComplexityParadoxResolutionExpensesSensationsDistractionFascismBlack And WhiteReplacedNormFundamentalistRigorOne SidedConsumer CultureEscalating Author:James Hollis